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Is the labor market vulnerability of less-educated men really about job competition? : New insights from the United States
Gesthuizen, Maurice; Solga, Heike - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 47 (2014) 3, pp. 205-221
"There are various reasons why less-educated men have higher risks of labor market vulnerability - risks such as being unemployed or, if employed, having only low socioeconomic status. The commonly used argument is that these higher risks result from increased job competition caused by an...
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Vocational training, SMEs and innovation in Navarre.
Olazaran, Mikel; Albizu, Eneka; Lavía, Cristina - In: Cuadernos de Gestión 13 (2013) 01, pp. 15-40
Recent studies within the innovation systems perspective have not paid enough attention to the role that Vocational … Training (VT) centres and technical workers can play in innovation processes. In this paper we review the recent international …, in-company work training, hiring of graduates, continuous training, and innovation-related services. Results show that …
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The impact of knowledge management and strategy configuration coherence on SME performance
Bagnoli, Carlo; Vedovato, Marco - In: Journal of Management and Governance 18 (2014) 2, pp. 615-647
According to recent literature, effective knowledge management should be coherent and based on the firm’s strategy …. Prior empirical research, in contrast, tries to evaluate the impact of knowledge management initiatives directly on … performance but finds inconsistent results and not allows the understanding of knowledge management contribution to competitive …
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Market orientation, innovation and organizational commitment in industrial firms
Moreira, Antonio Carrizo; Silva, Pedro Miguel - In: Tržište/Market 25 (2013) 2, pp. 123-142
(innovation, organizational commitment and performance) of market orientation in industrial SMEs.This article follows a new … orientation influences innovation and innovation, in its turn, influences business performance. Moreover, market orientation and …
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Education and Self-Employment: South Asian Immigrants in the US Labor Market
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Does higher educational attainment lead to greater participation in self-employment? Available studies agree and disagree on this subject through various explanations. We invoke an empirical example from the experiences of immigrants moving from poor countries to rich countries. Further, we...
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Gender specifics in entrepreneurs’ personal characteristics
Sirec, Karin; Mocnik, Dijana - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 17 (2012) 1, pp. 11-39
This paper explored Slovenian entrepreneurs’ personal characteristics to understand the existing gender gap in transitional countries, testing the proposed model among small and medium-sized company owners (N = 201; 32.3% female, 67.7% male). The research operationalized entrepreneurs’...
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Human Capital Investments in Children: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Parent-Child Shared Time in Selected Countries
Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States. We test the hypothesis of parent-child time as a...
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Human capital investments in children –A comparative analysis of the role of parent-child shared time in selected countries
Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - In: electronic International Journal of Time Use Research 9 (2012) 1, pp. 120-143
In this paper, we test the hypothesis of parent-child time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score treatment effects approach that accounts for the possible endogenous nature of time use and human capital investment. We broaden the human capital investment...
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Necessity And Reality Between Information Transparency In Performance SMEs To Track
Iacob, Constanţa; Simionescu, Silvia - In: Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics 10 (2010) 4, pp. 117-124
, knowledge management and control of assets, liabilities and equity, and the results obtained, the accounts must provide …
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Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen: Stütze der gewerblichen Wirtschaft in Europa
Schiersch, Alexander; Kritikos, Alexander S. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 13, pp. 277-287
European and German economic policy are increasingly shifting their emphasis to small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs). In 2008, the European Union adopted the Small Business Act with the goal of creating better underlying conditions for smaller businesses. The German government is also...
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